China says it scrambled fighter jets to monitor US and Japanese planes as they flew in its newly declared air defence zone in the East China Sea on Friday. The zone covers territory claimed by China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. China said last week that all aircraft crossing through the zone must file flight plans and identify themselves or face “defensive emergency measures”. The US, Japan and South Korea say they have since defied the ruling and flown military aircraft in the area. Continue reading the main story Analysis Charles ScanlonBBC News The United States and its allies appear…

The computer, which used Apple’s “Find My Mac” app, had been stolen from Paul DeWolf’s neighbor at around the same time that police believe DeWolf was killed. DETROIT — The first big break in the case came in the form of a single keystroke. It had been more than two months since a popular University of Michigan medical student was shot to death, and police seemingly had few leads. But on Oct. 3 — 45 miles from where student Paul DeWolf was killed in his Ann Arbor fraternity — a man in Detroit attempted to log onto a computer he’d…

Two “improvised launch devices” were fired near a US military base in Japan late on Thursday, officials said. No-one was injured in the incident, which took place outside Yokota air base near the capital, Tokyo. Bangs were reported by local residents and police found steel pipes, wires and batteries at the scene, police said. It is not clear who was responsible. Japan hosts tens of thousands of US troops under a long-standing security alliance. Yokota is a major US base. “We can confirm there was an improvised launch device outside Yokota over the evening,” Yokota air base said in a…